Hello, I have two Atheros AP147 QCA9531 SoC, the radio is connected to the WMAC. I am running OpenWRT Trunk on them and for some reason the TX/RX is incredibly low.
The first AP147 is low powered, No xPA Bias and only has 20dB of output power. Ath9k appears to run correctly, meaning I can bring up station/AP. However when I scan, it see's nothing. When I bring up an AP, the AP doesn't transmit. The second AP147 has an xPA Bias level of 13. This time I can scan on a station interface but everything it see's is incredibly low. The TX Power is also very very low. With the xPA, this is supposed to run at 26 dB. Is there a register a register that I can toggle to enable the QCA9531 internal PA/LNA? It's like ath9k is not enabling the internal PA/LNA correctly. The odd thing is, I have other QCA9531 boards ( Mikrotik based ) and they run fine on OpenWRT Trunk. I'm not sure what the difference is... Any insight would be much appreciated. I posted some details on the LEDE forum: https://forum.lede-project.org/t/ap147-010-qca9531-wmac-tx-power-issue/11126/2 -- Davey
